the Somali military court has for the first time sentenced a woman...

the Somali military court has for the first time sentenced a woman to be executed for crimes against the military law.
According to the court martial, 35-year-old Zeynab Adan Noor, a soldier with the TFG and a resident of El Buur in the central region, was accused of providing the Islamist insurgents with weapons and revealing military intelligence to the enemy.
Parts of the capital Mogadishu still remain under an emergency law following a directive issued by Somalia’s Transitional Federal President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed shortly after the exit of the militant al-Shabaab.
The court martial prosecutor Mohamed Hussein Hassan Mungab passed the sentence against the female soldier. The death sentence is the first since the election of President Sharif in 2009.
"After balancing all the facts and listening to all witnesses even those representing the accused, the Somali court martial sentences Zeynab to execution for providing material and other support to the enemy,’’ Mungab declared in front of a panel of more than 100 soldiers who turned up to listen to the verdict.
Zeynab was found in the possession of 87 rounds of ammunition that she allegedly intended to pass on to the militant fighters. The court prosecutor said they had all the evidence showing clearly how Zeynab assisted the militant group with mental and material support.
"The military system is clear. Anyone who helps the enemy both mentally and materially shall be executed in accordance with the laws pertaining the Somali military without prejudice,’’ Mungab told Somalia Report shortly after the court session.
The execution is set to take place in an undisclosed date in Mogadishu that has caused great worries within the TFG military force who view the punishment as a callous one. ‘‘Some crimes deserve different forms of punishment not necessarily execution,’’ a TFG soldier told Somalia Report.
Earlier this month, two soldiers were sentenced to execution for stealing three jerricans of cooking oil and a mobile phone from a shop in Bakara Market.
Elsewhere Abdi Ahmey Mahdi, 50 was sentenced to execution for allegedly shooting and seriously injuring his colleague.